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UNITED STATE PATENT Enron.

JAMES B. STANLEY AND JAMES 1-1. cLoYEs, or we MoINEs, iowA, ASSIGNORS TOTHE DES MOINES BUGGY coMPANY, or SAME rLAoE.

RUNNING-GEAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,391, dated April 8,1890. Application filed January 3, 1890. Serial No. 335,815. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AMES B. STANLEY and JAMES H. (lLOYES, citizens ofthe United States of America, and residents of Des Moines, inthe countyof Polk and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved Running- Gear forVehicles, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore side springs have been fixed to (O a bolster on the frontaxle and the hind axle, and reaches having lateral bends fixed to thesame holster and axle and the central portions of the springs, and thenconnected at their centers by cross-bars in such a manner I 5 that a boxor body could be fixed on the crossbars at its central portion toproject backward and forward in a plane above the axles.

Our invention consists in the construction and combination of a two-partreach with side springs, a bolster, and an axle, as hereinafter setforth, in such a manner that the two parts of the reach willreciprocally reenfcrce each other,serve as auxiliary springs insupporting and distributing weight, brace 2 5 the side springs, and alsoserve as cross-bars to support a box or body. I In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the front part and Fig. 2 ofthe rear part of the reach. Fig. 3 is abottom view of the running-gear,showing the relative positions of the two parts of the reach to eachother, the side springs, and the front and rear axles. Fig.4 shows thesame elements combined, but the form of the reach modified. Fig. 5 is aside view showing a box upon the springs and reach, as required forpractical use.

A is the front axle, B the rear axle, and G a bolster on the front axle.

D are mating leaf-springs in parallel position, fixed to the bolster attheir front ends and to the rear axle at their back ends by means ofclips and screw-bolts, or in any suit able way.

5 F is the front portion of our two-part reach, preferably made of aflat bar of steel and triangular in shape. Its front end is connectedwith the center of the front axle by means of a clip or bolts, or in anysuitable way, and is o perforated to admit the passage of a pivotalking-bolt that extends through the bolster,

to the end portions of the rear axle and its and is the center of motionof the axle, connected with the bolster by means of the fifthwheel ofcommon form. The sides of the rear portion of the triangular-shaped partof 5 5 the reach extend under the central portions of the side springs.

G is the rear portion of the reach, made of the same material andpreferably U-shaped. Its closed front end corresponds in width with therear end of the part F, so that the rear end of the one part and thefront end of the other will overlap each other at their sides, to bejointly fixed to the centers of the side springs D by means of clips orbolts to produce a complete reach that will have vertical flexion andmotion in concert with the 'side springs, but wi1l,in combination withthe springs, produce a rigid frame that will resist lateral pressure andtorsional Strain. 7o

In place of making the overlapping ends of the two parts of the reachstraight, they may be curved, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4, towiden the base upon which the box or body H is fixed by means of boltsin a 7 common way.

We are aware U-shaped frames have been fixed to an axle and direct toside springs; but our manner of producing a rigid reach by overlappingthe mating ends of two rigid frames and fixing them jointly to sidesprings is novel and greatly advantageous in the construction and use ofa running-gear.

We claim as our invention-- 1. A reach for vehicles, composed of a tri-85 angular-shaped frame adapted to be fixed to the center of the frontaxle and to the centers of two parallel side springs, and a U- shapedframe adapted to have its ends fixed 0 central portion to the samesprings and at the 9 same point Where the triangular shaped frame isattached to the springs, and to over-' lap the rear portion of thetriangular frame, for the purposes stated.

2. The triangular-shaped frame F and the Ushaped spring G, inoverlapping position with each other and in combination with the frontaxle of a vehicle, the rear axle, and two side springs, substantially asshown and de- 106 scribed, for the purposes stated.

3. An improved running=gear for vehicles,

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composed of two axles of uniform length, a two frames will be in anoverlapping position to bolster pivoted to the front axle, two side atthe points where they are jointly fixed to springs fixed to the endportions of the rear the springs, for the purposes stated.

axle and the end portions of the bolster on 5 the front axle, a framefixed to the center of JAMES B. STANLEY. the front axle and the centralportions of the p 4 JAMES H. CLOYES. two side springs, and a frame fixedto the \Vitnesses:

end portions of the rear axle, and also fixed R. H. ORWIG,

to the same springs at the same point, so the THOMAS G. ORWIG.

